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How to Boost Sales Productivity with Account Planning

Upland

Sales productivity becomes even more difficult for complex B2B accounts with large buying groups and multiple divisions involved in the decision-making process. Why account planning is essential to boost sales productivity Account planning is the process of mapping out key aspects of a potential customer or account.

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5 Tips to Build Stronger Relationships in Account Planning

Janek Performance Group: Account Planning

When selling to existing customers, 56 percent achieve win rates greater than 50 percent. This makes account planning essential. More than upselling and cross-selling, account planning is partnering with existing clients. Plus, with account planning, 74 percent see increased win rates.

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FROM EXECUTIVE SPONSORSHIP TO EXECUTIVE ENGAGEMENT

Strategic Account Management Association

We too often confuse strategic account sponsorship with corporate project sponsorship, where sponsorship is a way to escalate issues or decision-making when in need. When done right, strategic account sponsorship begs to have a very different definition. Adapting our corporate behaviors to fit the customer context.

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Want to Accelerate Your SAM Journey? Create a Center of Excellence

Strategic Account Management Association

When I started my career as a commercial and SAM roadmap leader, the commercial team and enabling functions collaborated daily in their customer engagement. The more the marketplace is integrated and features complex customers, the more they will need to move from a transactional sales model to a strategic account management business model.

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Value Selling Strategies: What it is and Why it Matters

Arpedio

Get started today Identifying Customer Value In order to succeed in sales, it is crucial to identify and understand the customer’s pain points. By addressing these pain points effectively, you can tailor your value proposition to meet their specific needs.

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5 Ways to Uncover Hidden Revenue in Strategic Accounts

SBI

Customer revenue optimization (CRO) is achieved through the processes and enabling technologies that help organizations identify the optimal path to revenue growth and enable them to capture and realize that revenue predictably and at a lower cost of sales. Deepen Customer Insights.

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Account-Based Marketing: Time to future proof your marketing efforts to become customer-led and team enabled.

Cosawi

As part of our customer buying journey mapping work, we have delved deeper not only into where the customer is headed, but what their state or mindset is at each given step as they progress on their decision making. For example, at one point in the journey, the customer may be ambivalent or frustrated.